Education Specialist Degree in Curriculum and Instruction and School Leadership, Ed.S.
Individuals who hold a master’s degree in education and who wish to pursue Tier 1 certification in School Leadership may wish to complete requirements for the Education Specialist degree in Curriculum and Instruction along with additional course work and an internship. (See section on School Leadership)
Other Program Requirements: Specialist Candidate Learning Log
All candidates in Piedmont’s Education Specialist Program will complete an entry log which assesses their mastery of the Specialist Program outcomes against content, scholarly work and course experiences. The SPCLO log allows the candidate to address course outcomes through a triple entry format which is submitted to the course professor and at the end of the program to the 8800 Orientation professors or designated other professors. The candidate’s entries will be assessed for:
- Mastery of course outcomes through a triple entry method of recording newly acquired knowledge, the impact of that knowledge, and establishing goals as a teacher leader for using the new knowledge to improve teaching and learning in B-12 schools
- Quality of writing, research, and reporting
- Scholarship
- Intellectual reflection with an emphasis on teacher leadership and curriculum and instruction
- Application to school and community
Flagship Papers
Each course in the Ed.S. program requires a scholarly paper which will be evaluated using the Scholarly Writing Rubric. Individual assignments for the course are identified as Flagship Assignments and the paper should be written to the standards established in the Scholarly Writing Rubric.
Reading and Research
Each candidate in the Ed.S. degree program is required to be knowledgeable of the literature in the field, to study research and become critical consumers of current research. Candidates will be required to write a scholarly literature review addressing a specific area of education.
Field Experiences
A minimum of 20 hours field experience in all levels of B-12 environments is required. These experiences will be aligned with course requirements and documented on a field experience documentation form.